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Paul Graham's innovative initial description of Bayesian spam filtering.

As a development organization adopts Agile and buys into various processes and practices, the temptation quickly grows to covert that development process into religion.

Have someone assigned to do production support at any given moment. Communicate well and manage expectations with your customers.

Why mergers and acquisitions fail.

The pattern: Company gets bought out. Users rejoice. Company lies fallow for months. Users grow impatient. Company's employees get farmed out to other Google projects. Company lies fallow for more months. Users get even more impatient.

Time has various levels of quality.